Disco: Running Commodity Operating Systems on Scalable Multiprocessors

ACM Transactions on Computer Systems

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 412-447

  Bugnion, Edouard ^a   Devine, Scott ^a   Govil, Kinshuk ^a   Rosenblum, Mendel ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

C.1.2 Computer Systems Organization : Multiple Data Stream Architectures parallel processors; D.4.7 Software : Operating Systems organization and design; Design; Experimentation; Performance; Scalable multiprocessors; Virtual machines

Indexed keywords

BUFFER STORAGE; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER MONITORS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATA STRUCTURES; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

RUNNING COMMODITY OPERATING SYSTEMS; SCALABLE MULTIPROCESSORS; VIRTUAL MACHINES;

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0031269854     PISSN: 07342071     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/265924.265930     Document Type: Article

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